Annotated checklist of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Mount Cameroon, southwestern Cameroon Author Mongombe, Aaron Manga Department of Biological Sciences; Faculty of Science; University of Maroua, Cameroon, P. O. Box 814, Maroua (Cameroon) mangajes @ gmail. com (corresponding author) mangajes@gmail.com Author Fils, Eric Moise Bakwo Department of Biological Sciences; Faculty of Science; University of Maroua, Cameroon, P. O. Box 814, Maroua (Cameroon) filsbkw 27 @ gmail. com Author Tamesse, Joseph Lebel Department of Biological sciences, Higher Teacher’s Training College, University of Yaoundé I, P. O Box 812, Yaoundé (Cameroon) jltamesse @ yahoo. fr jltamesse@yahoo.fr text Zoosystema 2020 2020-09-24 42 24 483 514 journal article 9780 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a24 01351e5b-e27f-4b12-aa0f-ab91055f8af7 1638-9387 4060043 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4369E104-E14C-4436-9B57-6C38A6AEBE65 Nycteris grandis Peters, 1865 Nycteris grandis Peters, 1865: 358 . COMMON NAME. — English: Large Slit-faced Bat. French: Grande Nyctère. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 4 specimens Mount Cameroon area • 1 ♀ ; Mubenge - Isongo; 4°05’00”N , 9°00’00”E ; 0 m; 5.III-25.III.1938 ; Martin Eisentraut leg.; SMNS 3448. Other localities of Cameroon • 1 ♀ , 1 ♂ ; Sangmelima; 2°56’00”N , 11°59’00”E ; 543 m ; 3.III.1938 ; Perret J.L leg.; ZFMK 1962.0203, 0204 • 1♀ ; Bonge; 4°28’00”N , 12°22’ 00”E ; 8.I.1957 ; Sjöstedt Yngve Bror leg.; ZMB 7044 . HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — It is predominantly a lowland rainforest species, but it also occurs in savannahs, and along riparian forest where it roosts in hollows of large trees, holes or small caverns in rocks and artificial structures such as disused water tower ( Happold 1987 ; Monadjem et al. 2010 ). It is broadly distributed in West, Central and East Africa ( Monadjem et al. 2017a ). It forages close to the ground, in open forests, and near edges of clearings and over streams. Arthropods and small vertebrates such as frogs, birds, fish and small bats constitute the diet of this species making it the only truly carnivorous bat in Africa that eat vertebrate prey ( Fenton et al. 1983 ). This species had previously been signalled in the Mount Cameroon area ( Van Cakenberghe & De Vree 1985 ). During our field surveys, no individuals attributed to this species were recorded. This species may be threatened in some parts of its range by habitat conversion and overharvesting for food ( Monadjem et al. 2017a ).